A New and Literal Translation of Juvenal and Persius: With Copious Explanatory Notes, by which These Difficult Satirists are Rendered Easy and Familiar to the Reader, Volume 1T. Tegg, 1829 - Latin poetry |
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... meant not , therefore , to corrupt the mind , by openly de- scribing the lewd practices of his countrymen , but to remove every veil , even of language itself , which could soften the fea- tures , or hide the full deformity of vice from ...
... meant not , therefore , to corrupt the mind , by openly de- scribing the lewd practices of his countrymen , but to remove every veil , even of language itself , which could soften the fea- tures , or hide the full deformity of vice from ...
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... to them . 25. Who clipping , & c . ] The person here meant is supposed to be Licinius , Perhaps you will ask , the freedman and barber of Augustus , Have given counsel to Sylla , that , a private 14 SAT . 1 . JUVENALIS SATIRE .
... to them . 25. Who clipping , & c . ] The person here meant is supposed to be Licinius , Perhaps you will ask , the freedman and barber of Augustus , Have given counsel to Sylla , that , a private 14 SAT . 1 . JUVENALIS SATIRE .
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... meant was some great man , who had been a friend to Regulus , and whom Re- gulus had basely betrayed . 34. From the devoured nobility . ] i . e . Destroyed through secret accusations , or pillaged by informers for hush - mo- ' ney . 35 ...
... meant was some great man , who had been a friend to Regulus , and whom Re- gulus had basely betrayed . 34. From the devoured nobility . ] i . e . Destroyed through secret accusations , or pillaged by informers for hush - mo- ' ney . 35 ...
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... meant is far from certain . Commen- tators differ much in their conjecture on the subject . Britannicus gives the mat- " This passage , " says he , " is " one of those concerning which we are yet to seek . " ter up . " But whether ...
... meant is far from certain . Commen- tators differ much in their conjecture on the subject . Britannicus gives the mat- " This passage , " says he , " is " one of those concerning which we are yet to seek . " ter up . " But whether ...
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... meant of Tigelli- nus , a favourite of Nero's , who poisoned three uncles , and , by forging their wills , made himself heir to all they had . 68. By small tables . ] Short testaments , contained in a few words . Comp . note on 1. 63 ...
... meant of Tigelli- nus , a favourite of Nero's , who poisoned three uncles , and , by forging their wills , made himself heir to all they had . 68. By small tables . ] Short testaments , contained in a few words . Comp . note on 1. 63 ...
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Page 3 - The satyrical Poets, Horace, Juvenal, and Persius, may contribute wonderfully to give a man a detestation of vice, and a contempt of the common methods of mankind; which they have set out in such true colours, that they must give a very generous sense to those who delight in reading them often. Persius his second satyr may well pass for one of the best lectures in divinity.